Kader Attia: The Museum of Emotion - Softcover

Ralph Rugoff; Nicola Clayton; Jean-Michel Frodon; Françoise Vergès; Giovanna Zapperi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1853323594 ISBN 13: 9781853323591

Publisher: Hayward Gallery Publishing, 2019

Synopsis

One of the rising stars in the international art scene, Kader Attia is a French-Algerian multidisciplinary artist whose powerful yet complex images, objects and installations examine the way cultures and histories have been constructed. Attia often plays with the vocabulary of museums and architecture to trouble the boundaries between different worlds, particularly Western and non-Western, through his use of re-appropriated and repaired everyday objects and ephemera, such as African masks, stapled paving cracks, assemblages of prostheses and photographs of surgical reconstruction. An in-depth interview with Hayward Gallery director Ralph Rugoff explores the artist s major themes, while art historians and other experts draw out particular threads to examine in depth. Compact but wide-ranging this is an indispensible first guide to an artist with an exceptional perspective on the way humans think about their place in the world.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hayward Gallery Publishing
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1853323594
• ISBN 13: 9781853323591
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176